AUGUSTA, GA - APRIL 13: Adam Scott of Australia presents Bubba Watson of the United States with the green jacket after Watson won the 2014 Masters Tournament by a three-stroke margin at Augusta National Golf Club on April 13, 2014 in Augusta, Georgia. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 461742841

"Bubba Golf" released a new CD on Sunday afternoon, but you won't find it in the gift shop at Augusta National Golf Club.

Bubba Watson, holding a three-stroke lead with four holes remaining in the Masters, pushed his drive into the pine straw to the left of the 15th fairway. Conventional wisdom calls for a golfer in Watson's situation to lay up in front of the pond protecting the green.

Conventions are better left for the political parties. Watson, whose unconventional thinking is the mission statement for Bubba Golf, took a 6-iron shot through the trees, landing his ball safely over the water.

It resulted in the second of five straight pars Watson needed to clinch his second Masters victory in three years. He posted a 72-hole score of 280, 8 under par, to finish three strokes ahead of Jordan Spieth and Jonas Blixt.

"Freak show," Ted Scott, his caddie, said in defining Bubba Golf. "I can't describe it any other way."

Watson's explanation: "I knew I could cut it. I had 181 (yards) to the front, and that's the number I was worried about. I hit a low 6-iron, choked up and just cut it a little bit."

In Bubba's world, the worst he could wind up was in a bunker. If he flew the sand trap, Watson reasoned, the grandstand would be in the way, and he would get a free drop.

"You know me," he said, "I wanted to get it a little closer to the pin, so I cut it a little bit without telling my caddie."

Augusta National patrons are getting to know Watson quite well. His 9-iron hook out of the woods two years ago to win a playoff against Louis Oosthuizen is the type of shot upon which Masters folklore is built.

"He can go out and not try and calculate his way around the golf course, but feel it and know what clubs he's supposed to hit at certain times to certain pins from yardages," said close friend Rickie Fowler, who tied for fifth.

Watson, 35, was getting chased by young and old.

He entered the day tied for the lead with Spieth, 20, who was trying to become the tournament's youngest winner ever. Spieth took a two-shot lead after three holes, then holed a 60-foot bunker shot for birdie on No. 4.

"I was 3 under through the first seven," said Spieth, who bogeyed three of the next five holes. "If you told me that when I woke up this morning, I would have thought it would be difficult for me to not win this golf tournament."

Miguel Angel Jimenez, at 50 trying to beocme the tournament's oldest winner, started the day two shots behind. He shot a 3-under 33 on the back nine despite failing to birdie either of the par 5s, but a slow start left him too much ground to make up. Jimenez finished alone in fourth at 4-under 284.

Watson won the tournament on the front nine. He matched Spieth's birdies on the fourth and sixth, both par 3s, and countered the youngster's bogeys on 8 and 9 with birdies.

"(Holes) 8 and 9 were really the turning point, where momentum went my way," Watson said. "Then the group in front of us and other groups, nobody really caught fire."

Blixt, a 29-year-old trying to become the first Swede to win a men's major, entered Sunday one stroke behind. He never made much of a move, posting two birdies, a bogey and 15 pars.

Matt Kuchar, tied with Blixt entering the round, took himself out with a four-putt double bogey on No. 4. He finished tied with Fowler, who was derailed by a three-putt bogey from 8 feet on No. 2.

As long as Watson kept his ball in play — he hit 40 of 56 fairways through four rounds — he was in control.

"A small town guy named Bubba now has two green jackets," Watson said. "It's pretty wild."